The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-14
AND NOW COMES DOW
And Knocks Senator Sparks Into Another
Cooked Hat.

And Knocks Senator Sparks Into Another
Cooked Hat
PORTLAND, Me, July 5, 1887 i
see in THE PULASKI CITIZEN letter
from Senator Sparks headed:
''Sparks Goes for Dow the letter
being addressed to me Now why
cannot the senator abstain from
saying what is not true? | do not
charge him with Intentional false
hood, but what he says is false, all
the same. He says:
"Gen1 Neal Dow attributes the fail
uresof prohibition in Maine to the con-
nivance of the republican party in that
state, and he recalls with bitterness the
fact that Mr.. Blaine refused TO vote on
the question"
/ never attributed the failure Of
prohibition in Maine to the repub-
lican party or any other cause.
Prohibition has never failed in
Maine nor in any other place, and |
have never said anything inconsis-
tent with that. | have never re-
called with bitterness the fact that
Mr.. Blaine did not vote on the con-
stitutional amendment. | have
never made in public any comment
whatever on that fact. The sena
tor continues:
cit is evident that Gen1 Dow, as well
as great many other persons, is una
ware of the basis Of compromise that
exists in Maine on the liquor qIes-
ton"
Ii the senator was not temper
ance man | should think he had ia
ken q little something when he
wrote that sentence. There is not
and never has been any comprom-
Use whatever in Maine on the
liquor question. OF course the sen
ator's "oasis' for 1T is a myth. Did
he borrow it from somebody or did
he imagine 1t?
"W hile the prohibitionists have their
law the other people have their liquor.
Thus there is contentment all round
except among such imnracticable per-
sons as Genl Dow, who never let
| things alone, whatever the circunstan-
ces might be-"
If the senator means saloons by
his word things" be says truly
that great many people as we'll as
| will not let them alone. We pitch
into them necessarily and never
miss a chance to hit them. He
quotes:
zone chief trouble with poor old ia
natical Dow is, that he does not realize
or seem to know how absurd and how
contradictory and consequently how
injurious his various talks and posi- =
| tions are"
| have never written a sentence
on this question that was contra
dictory to any other sentence Of
mine, either written or spoken.
Sow the senator speaks something
originai.
$50 you see Neal Dow has made all
kinds of staten -nts about this matter.
He says one day prohibition is failure
in Maine, and the next day denounces
say he made such statements"
1t is true | have made great
many statements about prohibition
in Name, but never at any time
/ have | said or intimated that it is
or ever was a failure, but always
that it is and has been e great sue
cess. Why is it that respectable
| men in writing or speaking IN favor
of the liquor traffic seem to be una
| Die to speak truIyE
| The Maine law in Maine is now
and ever has been wonderful sue
cess. 1t has suppressed every dis
tillery and brewery and has reduced
the liquor traffic to a fraction Of its
former value. Our people save.
directly and Indirectly, at least
twenty four millions annually, which
bu. for the Maine law would be
spent and wasted in drink, as il
was before the enactment of the
law. The last statement Of the
. senator with his name to it is this
The truth is, Neal Low he's made Sc
many contradictory statements abou'
prohibition in Maine that his friends
: here in Tennessee ought to be ashamed
, to quote him but instead they applaut
him. J. W. SPARES.
Now, Senator Sparks, that is no
true; it is false. | do not charge
you with q willful misstatement
!, but say this, you were bound t.
know before making it that it wal
not true.
l challenge the senator to pro
duce any statement of mine, eithe
in Tennessee or elsewhere, Oil tn
snbject of the Maine law in Main,
THAT is Inconsistent with anothe
that | have made. rhe fact tina
= the people of Maine put prohihi
Y tion into the constitution by vot
4 of three to one, after an experience
f of thirty-three years of its results
ought to be accepted by every rea
sonab!e man as CONCLUSIVE proc
i that it is good thing and not
bad one. NEAL Dow.